Developing global citizens: Open Data as Open Educational

Resources

Javiera AtenasUniversity College London

 

All citizens should have equal opportunities and multiple channels to access information, be consulted and participate. Every reasonable

effort should be made to engage with as wide a variety of people as possible

(OECD, 2009, p.17).

Open data is data that can be freely used, re-used and redistributed by anyone -

subject only, at most, to the requirement to attribute and sharealike.

http://opendatahandbook.org/guide/en/what-is-open-data

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Open Data Open Definition

•Availability and Access: the data must be available as a whole and at no more than a reasonable reproduction cost

•Re-use and Redistribution: the data must be provided under terms that permit re-use and redistribution including the intermixing with other datasets.

•Universal Participation: everyone must be able to use, re-use and redistribute - there should be no discrimination against fields of endeavour or against persons or groups.

Opening up EducationIn education and elsewhere information has become

increasingly digital and therefore potentially, more accessible.We have seen the rise of parallel open or ‘opening’ movements

around:• learning and teaching: open educational resources and open

delivery models (from OCW to OER, Open Textbooks, and lately, MOOCs)

• research: open access (OA) to research publications (shaking up traditional publishing models and also driving emergence of open peer review models)

• data: open access to government and research data (OD)

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The Value of Open Data

• Open data is an invaluable resource for scientific communities

• Supports and encourages more transparent research practices

• Supports scientific development and reproducibility

• Can be used to model good practices in academia for research and teaching

Where does OD come from?

• International agencies and organisations• Word Bank ; United Nations ; EU

• National Governments and their agencies• UKOD; GermanyOD; USA

• Local governments • Sardinia ; London; Barcelona

• Non-governmental organisations • ODI; Monithon

• Academic institutions and research centres

How can OD be used in HE?

• Collaborating with researchers in real research projects

• Collaborating with students from other disciplines

• Creating scenario-based learning activities• Collaborating with their local communities

working on real problems

Open Data for Skills Development

• Development of critical skills• Development of analytical skills • Development of research skills• Development of data literacy skills • Development of teamwork skills • Development of citizenship skills

Open Data for Skills Development

Open Data for Skills Development

Open Data for Civic Engagement

How to embed OD in T&L activities

•Identify and describe the learning outcomes for the intended activities;

•Identify the portals which will source the data;•Clearly identify and describe the challenges students might face;

•Provide training materials for the software students will need to analyse the data;

•Support students in communicating their findings to local or wider communities.

To learn more about OD and Open Education

• Open Definition http://opendefinition.org • Open Data Handbook http://opendatahandbook.org • Open Education Handbook http://education.okfn.org/handbook/

• Figshare http://figshare.com • Open Data as OER http://education.okfn.org/the-21st-centurys-raw-material-using-open-data-as-open-educational-resources/

• Open Data Europe https://open-data.europa.eu/en/data/ • UK Open Data Portal http://data.gov.uk • UK HE Data Portal http://www.data.ac.uk/ • Directory of Data Repositories http://oad.simmons.edu/oadwiki/Data_repositories